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This reminds of of Family Guy. Stewie is a small male child that continuously tries to get rid of his mother. What would Freud have to say about a situation like this? I am aware it is just a cartoon...

Is there anything else scientists have found to help reduce the effects of disorders such as PTSD? A soldier in combat after losing the life of a fellow comrade can't just whip out a computer and play tetris to help...

I have often thought about the differences between men in women and which myths are true. We learned in lecture that men are scientifically proven to be better at spatial capacity and in professions such as architecture. Today i was...

I thought the chapter on coping with stress was very ironic. I started reading it this week (week before finals official start) and instead of learning how to better cope with stressers, i just became more stressed because i had...

Is there one trait that is more important that the other? Say a couple is married for 40 years, is the passion still all there? What if there just needed to be a certain level the three categories needed to...

The results of this experiment seem really strange to me. Authority figures should have some sort of control over their subordinates, but to an extent like this? In the military I can see how people would obey as readily as...

ahhh German. There is another German word that I will always remember, albeit it won't be Schadenfreude! It actually is Gestalt. Not in the sense of psychology, but in the artistic sense. I was helping an artist create a large...

Of all the topics cover in this course so far, I think the topic most likely to stick with me is the development of language. Originally, I just figured small children learn language because they imitate their parents or society....

This definitely surprised me! My dog barely knows how to come to me when I call him without food in my hand. However, after hearing about how the shaping technique could be used to teach a pigeon how to go...

In my experience with dreams, I have realized that I tend to dream about the people and places I had recently seen or thought about. I think the mind just conjures up some plot to connect the people and places...

Is Alzheimer's disease passed down through genetics or the result of different environmental factors? I am also curious to know if the senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are present throughout the life of a person or if there is some...

The picture on the left just visually makes sense to us. The human visual system allows us to compensate for distances of objects. Although the size of an object may be extremely small compared with when the object is...

The first half of chapter three begins talking about the nerve cells. The biology and chemistry of how nerves communicate with each other as well as how the brain has plastic properties, meaning it can change. The chapter continues on...

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I like the fact you dedicated the blog to him, that's very cool how that word reminds you of him. But I can say that I have some Big Bad in me. As humans, we compare ourselves to the people surrounding us and if we see that we are doing better then someone else, we are going to feel good. It's a immature concept but we like to feel that we are better then someone else, especially if we don't like the person, or your competing with the other person. And I like the word too, German rocks!...

I definitely think that dogs are smart but this story reminds me a lot of one that I read in the textbook. The story was of a trainer who had taught his horse to spell and it consistently spelled words correctly. However, it was later found that the owner was unconsciously and unknowingly signaling the horse when it chose the right letter. I wonder if the owner of the dog is maybe doing something similar. He may not even know it but he could be signaling the dog and that's why Chaser is able to retrieve the right toy....

I really believe that Milgram's study shows that people aren't really able to think for themselves these days, what I mean is that we do what were told and believe what were told, but we don't think about it at all on our own....

I would also have to agree that its an example of our language causes our thought process, and I being to Germany before I do think that they like to laugh at other people's misery in mistakes, or at least at foreigners....